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(Eagle News) — Nananatiling nasa labas ng bansa at nasa karagatang pasipiko ang Typhoon Yutu. Ayon sa Philippine Atmospheric Geophysical and Astronomical Services Administration (PAGASA), huli itong namataan sa 2,120 kilometers east ng central Luzon. Bahagya itong humina at taglay na lang ang lakas ng hanging aabot sa 180 kilometers bawat oras at pagbugsong aabot sa 220 kilometers bawat oras. Kumikilos ang bagyo sa bilis na 20 kilometers bawat oras sa direksyong pa-kanluran. Ayon sa […]
(Eagle News) — Nagbabala ang Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte sa mga magsasakang iligal na umokupa ng lupa sa taniman ng tubo o sugarcane sa Sagay City, Negros Occidental. Ito ay matapos na mapatay ang siyam na magsasaka sa isang massacre na umano’y kagagawan ng mga miyembro ng New People’s Army (NPA). Sa kaniyang talumpati, sinabi ng Pangulo na kinubkob ng mga ito ang lupaing pag-aari ng mga orihinal na tenant nito. Kapag nakapag-ani na, pumapasok sila […]
by Ayee Macaraig Agence France Presse BORACAY, Philippines (AFP) — The Philippines opened the doors Friday to a spruced up and newly regulated Boracay, its famous holiday island that was shuttered to mend decades of harm caused by unchecked tourism. The white sand idyll was closed to visitors in April after President Rodrigo Duterte called it a “cesspool” tainted by raw sewage flowing from hotels and restaurants straight into the sea. But the re-christened resort […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte on Thursday, Oct. 25, removed Isidro Lapeña as Bureau of Customs commissioner, replacing him with Maritime Industry Authority (MARINA) administrator Rey Leonardo Guerrero. He also ordered the new Bureau of Customs chief, Guerrero, to remove from their key positions all commissioners and department heads of the bureau. He said that these personnel should be placed on “floating status” and that it does not matter that if this will […]
(Eagle News) — May napili na si Pangulong Rodrigo Duterte na kapalit ni Special Assistant to the President Christopher “Bong” Go. Ipinakilala ng Pangulo ang kapalit ni Go sa kanyang naging talumpati sa Philippine Quality Award and Conferment Ceremony sa Malacañang. Bagamat hindi pinangalanan ni Duterte ang kapalit ni Go, nakilala ito na si Senior Inspector Sofia Loren Deliu na dating contestant ng Miss Earth Philippines beauty pageant. Si Deliu ay kasalukuyang junior officer sa […]
(Eagle News) — Umaabot lamang sa 40 percent ng beneficiaries ng pantawid pasada program ng pamahalaan ang nabigyan ng P5,000 fuel subsidy kaugnay sa epekto ng Tax Reform for Acceleration for Inclusion (TRAIN) law. Ayon kay Finance Usec. Karl Kendrick Chua, sa kanilang tala noong Oktubre 22 ay umaabot lamang sa 56,154 jeepney franchise holders mula sa kabuuang 142,000 ang nakinabang sa nasabing programa. Ipinaliwanag ng opisyal na documentation ang siyang pangunahing dahilan kung bakit […]
(Eagle News) — Land Transportation Franchising and Regulatory Board (LTFRB) chair Martin Delgra said the fare increase that is set for implementation on the first week of November could possibly be delayed. “There’s a possibility,” LTFRB chairman Martin Delgra said when asked about this during in a press briefing in Malacañang. This was after a commuters’ group filed a petition seeking the suspension of the P1.00 fare hike sought by jeepney and bus operators. The […]
(Eagle News) – Bureau of Customs commissioner Isidro Lapeña has backtracked on his earlier statement on there was no shabu inside four magnetic lifters found in Cavite, and now admits that these may have indeed contained shabu. This was after hearing various testimonies at the House of Representatives, including that of a Department of Public Works and Highways official on Wednesday, Oct. 24. “With the continuing investigation and yung mga lumalabas na mga circumstantial evidences, […]
(Eagle News) –President Rodrigo Duterte ordered the arrest of a customs intelligence officer supposedly linked to the P6.8 billion shabu shipment that had recently allegedly slipped past the Bureau of Customs. The President gave the directive for the Philippine National Police to arrest Customs intelligence officer Jimmy Guban amid an inquiry done by the House of Representatives to look into the alleged smuggling of the P6.8 billion of shabu that recently got past the […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte visited the wake of police officers killed in the Oct. 18 ambush on a convoy of the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) chief Nela Charade Puno, where he personally expressed his sympathies and condolences to their family members. The President arrived at the Camarines Sur Police Provincial Office on Tuesday, Oct. 23, to visit the wake of PO1 Ralph Jason Vida, one of the three policemen who died […]
(Eagle News) — The Department of Justice (DOJ) will file a motion for reconsideration before the Makati regional trial court as it sought a partial reversal of Judge Andres Soriano’s decision that junked an earlier government motion for an arrest warrant against Senator Antonio Trillanes IV. Justice Secretary Menardo Guevarra said that the “motion for partial reconsideration” of the order of Makati regional trial court branch 148 will be filed “not later than Friday,” […]
(Eagle News) — President Rodrigo Duterte honored security forces killed in separate clashes with the New People’s Army (NPA) in Camarines Sur and Camarines Norte last week, as he conferred the order of Lapu-Lapu with the rank of Kalasag to the three policemen killed in the ambush. The President arrived on Tuesday, Oct. 23, at the Camarines Sur Police Provincial Office to visit the wake of PO1 Ralph Jason Vida, one of the three policemen […]
